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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. CrateDB vs. Manticore Search vs. MongoDB

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Name

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.73
Rank	#224	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

cratedb.com

manticoresearch.com

www.mongodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

cratedb.com/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Crate

Manticore Software

MongoDB, Inc

Initial release

2018

2013

2017

2009

Current release

2.3, January 2021

6.0, February 2023

6.0.7, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Fixed schema

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions (Javascript)

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

optional, enabled by default

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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